32 Notable alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
Indian Institute of Technology Madras is ranked #536 in the world and #5 in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Madras sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Indian Institute of Technology Madras won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Aditya Akella
computer scientist
Srinivasa Aditya Akella is a computer scientist, professor and Regents Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for research in software-defined networking, big data systems, low latency networking, content distribution and network function virtualization.
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2. Promode R. Bandyopadhyay
scientist
Promode R. Bandyopadhyay is an Indian born American inventor, research scientist and Technical Program Manager at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He was a Program Officer at the Cognitive, Neural and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division of the Human Systems Science and Technology Department of the Office of Naval Research. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at...
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3. Mas Subramanian
1977-1981 (aged 4)
researcher
chemist
Mas Subramanian,, is a solid-state materials scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Milton Harris Chair of Materials Science in the university's Department of Chemistry. His work in solid-state chemistry on structure-property relationships of inorganic compounds has led to several new functional materials, many of which have found usage in various...
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4. J A Chowdary
1955-. (aged 71)
businessperson
Jakkampudi Adiseshaiah Chowdary is the founding director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. He also served as chairman of the Indian BlockChain Standards Committee, the General Partner-Succeed Innovation Fund and a former IT advisor and special chief secretary to the Chief Minister, Government of Andhra Pradesh. He is "one of the key architects" of...
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5. Jayant B. Udgaonkar
1960-. (aged 66)
biochemist
Jayant Bhalchandra Udgaonkar is a molecular biologist studying the processes by which a random chain of amino acids stabilises into a functional structure during or after translation.
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6. Bob Balaram
1961-. (aged 65)
engineer
scientist
J. "Bob" Balaram is an Indian-American scientist and engineer currently working for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is the chief engineer and designer of Ingenuity (project name: Mars 2020 helicopter), the first extraterrestrial aircraft, that was attached underside of car-sized Perseverance rover that successfully landed on the Mars in February 2021.
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7. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
1965-. (aged 61)
mathematician
university teacher
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan FRS is an Indian-American scientist. He is currently the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics at Harvard University. His work centers around understanding the organization of matter in space and time. Mahadevan is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
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8. Suresh Garimella
university president
mechanical engineer
Suresh Garimella is an Indian American mechanical engineer and university administrator serving as the 23rd president of University of Arizona since 2024. Previously, Garimella was the 27th president of the University of Vermont. Before assuming the presidency in 2019, Garimella was executive vice president for research and partnerships at Purdue University.
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9. Sridhar Tayur
1966-. (aged 60)
businessperson
Sridhar R. Tayur is an American business professor, entrepreneur, and management thinker. He is university professor of operations management and Ford Distinguished Research Chair at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the founder of SmartOps Corporation and OrganJet Corporation.
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10. Rahul Panicker
1980-. (aged 46)
entrepreneur
Rahul Alex Panicker is a technology leader and entrepreneur, formerly Chief Innovation Officer at the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and best known as the President and Co-founder of Embrace Innovations and Embrace, a social enterprise startup that aims to help premature and low-birth-weight babies, through a low-cost infant warmer.
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11. Arun Sundararajan
1971-. (aged 55)
university teacher
economist
Arun Sundararajan is the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. For 2010–12, he is the Distinguished Academic Fellow at the Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business. Sundararajan is an expert on the economics of digital goods and network effects. He...
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12. A. Parasuraman
business theorist
A. "Parsu" Parasuraman is an Indian-American marketing professor and author. He is a professor and the James W. McLamore Chair in Marketing at the University of Miami.
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13. Arvind Narayanan
computer scientist
academic
university teacher
Arvind Narayanan is a computer scientist and a professor at Princeton University. Narayanan is recognized for his research in the de-anonymization of data. He is currently the director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.
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14. R. Prasanna
1957-. (aged 69)
composer
jazz guitarist
jazz musician
Prasanna Ramaswamy, is a known for performing Carnatic music on the guitar. He also plays jazz, progressive rock, and world fusion.
15. M Jagadesh Kumar
academic administrator
university teacher
Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar is an Indian academic, electrical engineer and education administrator. He is the former Chairman of University Grants Commission, serving from February 2022 to April 2025. He served as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. Kumar was the Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University from January 2016 till 2022.
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16. Venky Harinarayan
computer scientist
businessperson
entrepreneur
Venkatesh "Venky" Harinarayan is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cambrian Ventures and Kosmix. Harinarayan also co-founded Junglee Corp. and played a significant role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s. Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University and a masters from UCLA. Bachelor of Technology He completed his bachelor's degree in...
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17. Ramanathan V. Guha
1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist
Ramanathan V. Guha is the creator of widely used web standards such as RSS, RDF and Schema.org. He is also responsible for products such as Google Custom Search. He was a co-founder of Epinions and Alpiri. He worked at Google for nearly two decades, most recently as a Google Fellow, before announcing his departure from the company in August 2024....
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18. B. Jayant Baliga
1948-. (aged 78)
scientist
electrical engineer
Bantval Jayant Baliga is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT).
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19. Subra Suresh
1956-. (aged 70)
university teacher
Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American engineer, materials scientist, and academic leader. He is currently Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and board member at the Villars Institute. He was Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director...
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20. Vic Gundotra
1968-. (aged 58)
businessperson
Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014. Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.
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21. Anant Agarwal
1958-. (aged 68)
computer scientist
engineer
university teacher
Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and has been director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor...
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22. Ramamurti Shankar
1947-. (aged 79)
physicist
university teacher
Ramamurti Shankar is an American physicist who is the Josiah Willard Gibbs professor of physics at Yale University.
23. S. Sowmya
1969-. (aged 57)
singer
S. Sowmya is a Carnatic music vocalist. She learnt music initially from her father Srinivasan, and later from S. Ramanathan and Smt.T. Muktha. She received the Sangeetha Kalanidhi title by Madras Music Academy in 2019 and the Isai Perarignar by the Tamil Isai Sangam in 2022. She was appointed by the Govt of Tamil Nadu as Vice Chancellor of the...
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24. Rajinder Singh
1946-. (aged 80)
scientist
Rajinder Singh is the head of the international, non-profit organization Science of Spirituality (SOS), also known in India as the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission. To his disciples he is known as Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj. Singh is known for his work toward promoting inner and outer peace through spirituality and meditation on the inner Light and Sound.
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25. Prem Watsa
1950-. (aged 76)
financier
investor
businessperson
chief executive officer
V. Prem Watsa CM is an Indian-Canadian billionaire businessman who is the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings, based in Toronto.
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26. Kris Gopalakrishnan
1955-. (aged 71)
computer scientist
Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan is an Indian businessman and the chairman of Axilor Ventures, a startup accelerator. He is one of the co-founders of Infosys, having served as its CEO and managing director from 2007 to 2011 and vice chairman from 2011 to 2014.
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27. Prabhakar Raghavan
1960-. (aged 66)
computer scientist
business manager
Prabhakar Raghavan is a computer scientist and the Chief Technologist at Google. His research spans algorithms, web search and databases. He is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms with Rajeev Motwani and Introduction to Information Retrieval.
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28. Gururaj Deshpande
businessperson
Gururaj Deshpande is an Indian American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA-based internet equipment manufacturer Sycamore Networks, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT and the Deshpande Foundation.
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29. A G Ramakrishnan
1958-. (aged 68)
computer scientist
electrical engineer
Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan currently holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Heritage Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He is also a Visiting faculty and Member, Board of Studies of the School of Psychology & Education, Rishihood University. He is also the Organizational Development Consultant for the Centre for Brain Research - IISc and...
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30. Sethuraman Panchanathan
1961-. (aged 65)
computer scientist
academic administrator
university teacher
civil servant
Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator who served as the 15th Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2020 to 2025.
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31. Sujatha Gidla
1963-. (aged 63)
train conductor
writer
Sujatha Gidla is an Indian-born American author and train conductor. She is the author of the critically acclaimed 2017 book, Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India. She works as a conductor for the New York City Subway.
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32. Pinaki Majumdar
1964-. (aged 62)
physicist
Pinaki Majumdar is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Known for his research on correlated quantum systems, Majumdar is a recipient of the Global Indus Technovator Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him...
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